ENTS: Emergency Node Transmission System
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Spurgeon, Walker
Issue Date
2016
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Thesis
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en_US
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Trail safety is an issue that every wilderness adventurer has to take into consideration. Cost of emergencies is absorbed by the state most of the time. With the Emergency Need Transmission System Network, or ENTS, we hope to alleviate this problem by using data collected from Bluetooth Low-Energy (BLE) beacons.
Nodes made with Arduino single board computers equipped with a BLE antenna and XBee Radio antenna for communications will pick up Bluetooth signals and send them along a mesh of interconnected nodes to the base station. The base station is a Raspberry PI equipped with a Bluetooth dongle and XBee radio. This will collect anonymous data, and upload the data to a database. A website will allow users to interact with the database, and locate device positions on trails. This allows family and friends to check on trail goers, and can provide a last known location for Search-and-Rescue responders.
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